Oh no! Seven kids at the start, all yellow and skinny.

Chapter 78 The Monkey Troops Arrive

Outside the door, Li Lai's mother had her son carried over, wailing all the way.

However, when she saw the large brick and tile house in front of her, she was first stunned, then a greedy glint flashed in her eyes, and she cried even more loudly.

"Oh God, this is outrageous! My perfectly healthy son, he just happened to be passing by and now he's like this! This is driving me to my death..."

"Fellow villagers, please be the judge! A widow who lost her husband not only seduced my son, but also let a beast hurt him..."

"If you don't give this old woman an explanation today, I'll kill myself right here..."

……

"Li Lainiang, what are you doing?" The village chief, who had heard the commotion, led the others over and stopped the person a dozen meters away from the house.

"Xia Baolai, you abandoned my son yesterday and left. It's only thanks to God that he's still alive." Although Li Lai's mother was an old woman, she was very strong and had a good jumping ability. She jumped two feet high and pointed at the village chief's nose, wailing, "What did my son do to deserve this? Your Xia Family Village is simply going too far."

The village chief glanced at the people behind her and noticed that a few people from Li Family Village had come, but they were all keeping a distance. The people in front were her maternal family: "Your son was injured by a monkey while climbing over someone's wall, and you're trying to extort money from him?"

"You're talking nonsense!" Li Lai's mother roared. "It was clearly this little slut who seduced my son, and then..."

Just then, a commotion suddenly came from the direction of Qinglong Mountain, and then a dark mass of monkeys came rushing over. The leader was naturally... the former monkey king with a big, square face, while the current monkey king, Sixteen, was perched on his shoulder.

The monkey was very fast, squeaking as it quickly arrived.

"Don't be afraid, boss, we're here." Sixteen's tone was smug. "This time, he'll never forget it."

Before Li Lai Niang could react, she was slapped away by the charging former Monkey King.

The remaining monkeys then worked together to lift Li Lai, who was lying on the door panel, by his arms and legs, and ran straight into the mountains.

"My son..." Li Lai's mother was dazed and confused from the fall, but as soon as she saw her son being carried away, she hurriedly got up and chased after them, "Quickly, help me get my son back..."

Unfortunately, the villagers of Lijia Village all retreated. How could Qinglong Mountain be a place for people to go?

Li Lai Niang's family members were so frightened that they turned pale. Forget about snatching her away; they would be considered brave if they could even stand up straight without collapsing from fright.

"See?" Yun Yi shrugged at the people of Li Family Village. "This guy's trouble really has nothing to do with us. He must have offended the monkeys of Qinglong Mountain, right?"

Everyone's expression turned strange.

"Oh dear, maybe Li Lai didn't have a wife and was too busy, so he went into the mountains and messed around with some female monkeys?" someone muttered.

The expressions on everyone's faces became even more strange.

Yun Yi glanced at Xia Fanshi, who was secretly enjoying herself, and had to admit that the old lady's thought process was quite peculiar.

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Xia He glared at his wife.

"Where did I go wrong?" Xia Fanshi pouted. "Otherwise, with so many people passing by, why don't those monkeys attack others?"

Xiahe was speechless.

"Alright, if you're looking for someone, hurry up and go search in the mountains." The village chief waved his hand at the people of Li Family Village, "If you're too late..."

"Brother Baolai." Just then, the village chief of Lijia Village also ran over. "It's come to this, you can't just ignore it."

"How are we supposed to manage this?" Village Chief Xia Baolai spread his hands. "That person came to cause trouble for our villagers, to ruin our village's reputation, and we're supposed to risk our lives to help save him? Are we so despicable?"

"This..." Village Chief Li was speechless.

“Village chief, if you ask me, Li Lai brought this upon himself. None of us would risk our lives for him, after all, we all have families to support.” The villagers of Li Family Village also agreed with Xia Baolai’s statement.

"Exactly, exactly. Don't call us cold-blooded, those mother and son were just disgusting."

"Forget about saving him, if I could, I'd kill him."

"That monkey is doing a service to the people."

……

In the end, Village Chief Li could only sigh, glance at Li Lai's mother's family, and say, "You can decide for yourselves. Let's go back; there's still work waiting for us at home." Then he led the way away.

"Village Chief, you can't leave, you can't leave! Please, help me get my son back!" Li Lai's mother realized she couldn't catch up with the monkey troop, so she had no choice but to return and kowtow to Village Chief Li.

Village Chief Li was in a real dilemma. If he intervened, he wouldn't feel comfortable; if he didn't, they were from the same village after all.

"The monkeys are back!" Wang Qiao'er, who was watching the commotion, suddenly shouted.

Then everyone saw that the group of monkeys had returned, but this time they weren't carrying Li; they were dragging him, head down.

Yesterday, I only gave Li a slight lesson and he only suffered minor injuries. Today, that mother and daughter pretended to faint and were carried over in order to extort money from me.

Now, being dragged along by the monkey, he had already woken up and began to scream in agony.

"It seems like you're not dizzy anymore," Yunyi reminded her.

“Son…” Li Lai’s mother rushed over.

The former monkey king bared his teeth at her.

The old lady was so frightened that she fell to the ground with a thud.

The Monkey King roared at everyone, pounded his chest, and then smashed Li Lai's leg with a slap.

After Li Lai let out a scream, he really fainted.

At this moment, the monkeys squeaked a few times and then scurried back into the forest.

"Son? Son..."

"Alright, hurry up and get him to the clinic." Seeing the situation, Village Chief Li really couldn't blame anyone, so he could only urge, "Don't let any delay leave any lasting effects."

"Go, hurry up and go." Li Lai Niang could only tell her family to carry her son away.

"Second Aunt, you said you'd give us money when we came. Now that we're going back to town, when will you give us the money?" A young man from the bride's family couldn't help but ask.

The others nodded in agreement.

"Money, money, when did you start thinking about money? Can't you see my son is injured? Hurry up!" Li Lai's mother was furious and slapped the other woman.

"Second Aunt, what kind of attitude is this?" The young man retorted, "Don't you know your family's situation? It's one thing to come home and freeload today, but now you're saying others are bullying Li Lai. We've come, but is it really others who are bullying us?"

"Yes, Second Sister-in-law, we dropped everything to come and help you, and what was the result?"

"What are you saying? My son is so outstanding. If he becomes successful in the future, you'll all benefit from it. Asking you for a little help now is doing you a favor." Li Lai's mother was truly angry. "You all hurry up and go to town. Give me whatever silver you have on you..."